CTET January 2012 Question Paper-1 with Answer | ||||
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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Direction: Answer the following question by selecting the most appropriate option.
- Human personality is the result of
(a) interaction between heredity and environment
(b) only environment
(c) only heredity
(d) upbringing and education
- Individual attention is important in the teaching-learning process because
(a) teacher training programmers prescribe it
(b) it offers better opportunities to the teacher to discipline
(c) children develop at different rates and learn differently
(d) learners always learn better in groups
- Errors of learners often indicate
(a) the need for a mechanical drill
(b) absence of learning
(c) Socio-economic status of the learner
(d) how they learn
- Which of the following is a domain of learning?
(a) Affective
(b) Spiritual
(c) Professional
(d) Experiential
- When a child gets bored while doing a task, it is a sign that
(a) the child is not intelligent
(b) the child is not capable of learning
(c) the child needs to be disciplined
(d) the task may have become mechanically repetitive
- Which of the following is the first step in the scientific method of problem-solving?
(a) Problem awareness
(b) Collection of relevant information
(c) Formation of hypothesis
(d) Verification of the hypothesis
- Vygotsky emphasized the significance of the role played by which of the following factors in the learning of children?
(a) Moral
(b) Physical
(c) Social
(d) Hereditary
- A teacher makes use of a variety of tasks to cater to the different learning styles of her learners. She influenced by
(a) Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory
(b) Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory
(c) Piaget’s cognitive development theory
(d) Kohlberg’s moral development theory
- A teacher never gives an answer to questions herself. She encourages her students to suggest answers, has group discussions and adopts collaborative learning. This approach is based on the principle of
(a) setting a good example and being a role-model
(b) Reading to learn
(c) active participation
(d) proper organization of instructional material
- Which of the following is a teacher-related factor affecting learning?
(a) Availability of teaching-learning resources
(b) Nature of the content or learning experiences
(c) Mastery over the subject-matter
(d) Proper seating arrangement
- A school gives preference to girls while preparing students for state-level solo-song competition. This reflects
(a) Pragmatic approach
(b) Progressive thinking
(c) Gender bias
(d) Proper seating arrangement
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- A school-based assessment is primarily based on the principle that
(a) students should at all cost get high grades
(b) schools are more efficient than external bodies of examination
(c) assessment should be very economical
(d) teachers know their learners’ capabilities better than external examiners
- A teacher, after preparing a question paper, checks whether the questions test specific testing objectives. He is concerned primarily about the question paper’s
(a) typology of questions
(b) reliability
(c) validity
(d) content coverage
- Critical pedagogy firmly believes that
(a) what children learn out of school is irrelevant
(b) the experiences and perceptions of learners are important
(c) the teacher should always lead the classroom instruction
(d) the lears need not reason independently
- Learners display individual difference. So a teacher should
(a) enforced strict discipline
(b) increase number of tests
(c) insist on the uniform pace of learning
(d) provides a variety of learning experience
- Human development is divided into domains such as
(a) emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and social-psychological
(b) psychological, cognitive, emotional and physical
(c) physical, spiritual, cognitive and social
(d) physical, cognitive, emotional and social
17. In the context of education, socialization means
(a) respecting elders in society
(b) adapting and adjusting to the social environment
(c) always following social norms
(d) creating one’s own social norms
- Which of the following is a principle of development?
(a) Development is always linear
(b) It is a discontinuous process
(c) All process of development are not inter-connected
(d) It does not proceed at the same pace for all
- A teacher uses a text and some pictures of fruits and vegetables and holds a discussion with her students. The students link the details with their previous knowledge and learn the concept of nutrition. This approach is based on
(a) theory of reinforcement
(b) operant conditioning of learning
(c) construction of knowledge
(d) classical conditioning of learning
- A child starts to cry when his grandmother takes him from his mother’s lap. The child cries due to
(a) emotional anxiety
(b) stranger anxiety
(c) separation anxiety
(d) social anxiety
- Inclusive Education
(a) encourages strict admission procedures
(b) includes indoctrination of facts
(c) includes a teacher from marginalized groups
(d) celebrates diversity in the classroom
- Which of the following is an objective question?
(a) Open-ended question
(b) True or false
(c) Essay type question
(d) Short answer question
- The most effective method to teach the concept of germination of seeds is
(a) to draw pictures on the black-board and give descriptions
(b) to show pictures of seed growth
(c) to give detailed explanations
(d) to make the students plant seeds and observe stages of germination
- When a child ‘fails’ it means
(a) the child should have taken private tuition
(b) the system has failed
(c) the child is not fit for studies
(d) the child has not memorized the answer properly
- Which of the following is a feature of progressive education?
(a) Emphasis on scoring good marks in examinations
(b) Frequent tests and examinations
(c) Flexible time-table and seating arrangement
(d) Instruction based solely on prescribed text-books
- The emphasis from teaching to learning to can be shifted by
(a) encouraging rote learning
(b) adopting frontal teaching
(c) focusing on examination results
(d) adopting child-centered pedagogy
- According to Kohlberg, a teacher can instill moral values in children by
(a) laying clear rules of behavior
(b) involving them in discussions on moral issues
(c) giving strict instructions on how ‘ how to behave’
(d) giving importance to religious teachings
- According to Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, the sensory-motor stage is associated with
(a) ability to solve problems associated with
(b) ability to interpret and analyze options
(c) concerns about social issues
(d) imitation, memory and mental representation
- When a child with a disability first comes to school, the teacher should
(a) seclude him from other students
(b) discuss with the child’s parents to evolve collaborative plans
(c) conduct an admission test
(d) refer the child to a special school according to the disability
- Young learners should be encouraged to interact with peers in the classroom so that
(a) the syllabus can be covered quickly
(b) the learn social skills in the course of study
(c) the teacher can control the classroom better
(d) they can learn answers to questions from each other